rumours were abound that she was leaving when she wasn't. She seems very unpopular with the audience which is sort of sad. In tems of pblic popularity Billie is hard to follow though I don't think Piper is a better actress just better chemistry.

so was piper as i said the difference as piper and tennants relationship was believable and when you have that in a programme you have public interest.I barely used to watch it when piper was on it but the chemistry was good between the two. Freema looks uncomfortable.

no one on Who is going to in a bafta/livier awardany time soon unless it's the tv baftas which are pretty shit.

I think she's prttier than billie but it's not enough for the fans, chemistry i all important. Don't think freema has done anything as big as Who and it must be daunting knowing your predecessor was well loved and most people have nothing but negativity towards you.

For the first couple of episodes most people were up for her in the stuff I was reading. But I think the fact that she was written that way, and also that episodes were written in that whole "Oh one journey only" way made her seem totally temporary too.

Her lines don't really work for her, and this past weekend's episode was a shocking montage of all the reasons I don't like her in her role. I will admit that in the preceding few episodes shed been pretty good though.

Personally I think his tenure in charge will end (and it's due to end at the end of the next series) with the Timelords being reborn so as to leave Doctor Who back to 'normal' for the next production team.

he claims the ring bit with the Master is for future production teams not for him. So if that's the case then it sounds like he sets things up for that sort of idea. I can see him returning the timelords

Eccleston played it like he was an uber alien whereas tennant is being too humanised. There's his idea that he's irresistble to women James Bond in Space anyone? The main crit I see levelled at the show is that too many episodes are done on earth.

also it would be good to see more aliens, though i think about 90% of the stories have been really good. perhaps there were points in some of the spacey episodes for more free thinking aliens, for example, why were the ood just a slave race? though i guess the religious mythology wouldn't have worked so well. i dunno...

most popular old ones were set on Eearth - all the Pertwee ones were I think and that was the best era - good point about Eccleston as he kept calling the human race 'apes' which I liked sort of - his sad Doctor was very underrated.